t was in the year 2000 that Enrico Zaccagni began project managing the restorations of classic boats, “but I started doing it in my mind many years earlier,” he told me. After leaving school in 1971 he went to the University of Genoa to study Naval Engineering. He would have much preferred to study yacht design but there was nowhere he could do so in Italy at the time. When he finished his studies, in 1979 he sailed to the Caribbean with his father and other family and friends in the family boat – a 1924 Claude Worth designed 62ft (19m) ketch, originally named , a Bermudan. Before setting off, he came to an agreement with a Milan-based travel agent which agreed to send charter guests to the Caribbean where Enrico and two crew would take them sailing on .
